Color

#8a7742

#8a7742
hex#8a7742
rgbrgb(138, 119, 66)
hslhsl(44, 35%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.575 0.076 90.2)
Closest name: Capers (#897a3e)Relative luminance 0.1899

Colors that go with #8a7742

Charcoal, Royal Blue and Champagne lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #8a7742

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#42558a

#8a5342 · #798a42

#428a77 · #77428a

Split-complementary

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#42798a · #53428a

#428a53 · #42558a · #8a4279

Contrast

#8a7742 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.38:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #867441 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #645630 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (4.52:1)
Aaon black
4.8:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ac9453 as the text (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a7742 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#8a7742 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a7742
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8a7742 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a7742-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md